TEACHER’S GUIDE I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior
S T. M A RT I N ' S G R I F F I N
TEACHER'S GUIDE
I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior
Memoirs of an American Soldier
by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin
"This young-readers version of an ex-SEAL sniper's account of his training and combat experiences . . . makes colorful, often compelling reading."
--Kirkus Reviews
192 pages ? ISBN 978-1-250-01643-0
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ABOUT THE BOOK
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six--a once-secret unit, now famous for its dramatic attack on Osama Bin Laden's compound.
In this young reader's edition of the New York Times bestseller Seal Team Six, Howard Wasdin tells how he overcame a grueling childhood to live his dream and enter the exciting and dangerous world of Navy SEALs and Special Forces snipers.
After escaping an abusive father, Howard joined the Navy so he could complete his college education. Always driven to master the next challenge, he quickly moved through the best units in the military, eventually joining the legendary SEAL Team Six. Soon he was fighting for his life in the Battle of Mogadishu, when his small band of soldiers found themselves cut off from help and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades.
For Howard, the result of that battle was a series of new and unexpected challenges, with surprising changes in his life and beliefs.
This young reader's edition tells the entire story from the adult edition in a slightly condensed form.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This guide has three main sections: ? A chapter-by-chapter Teacher's Summary ? Questions for Class ? Suggestions for Individual Study, to help students who have chosen this book for a book report.
There's also a Teacher and Student Resources section to help plan enriched study of the background of the historical events described in the book.
PRAISE FOR SEAL TEAM SIX
"Mr. Wasdin's narrative is visceral and as active as a Tom Clancy novel . . . [it] will also leave readers with a new appreciation of the training that enabled SEAL Team Six to pull off the bin Laden raid with such precision . . . adrenaline-laced."--The New York Times
"SEAL Team Six pulses with the grit of a Jerry Bruckheimer production . . . On his journey to becoming a member of the Navy's best of the best, Wasdin proved his mettle in Operation Desert Storm and endured training that would break the back of most mortal men."--The Washington Post
"[Wasdin] describes the harrowing ops he undertook as part of the elite Seal Team Six squadron, including the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu that almost killed him . . . Reveals an intimate look at the rigorous training and perilous missions of the best of the Navy's best."--Time
"SEAL Team Six is a masterful blend of one man's--Waz-Man's--journey from hard knocks to hard corps. Even better, Waz-Man and Templin can actually write as good as they can shoot. They capture your attention at every turn--not knowing if you're about to take a bullet to the head from a SEAL sniper or get hit in the gut with a punch line." --Dalton Fury, former Delta Force Commander and New York Times bestselling author of Kill Bin Laden
TEACHER'S SUMMARY
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In a mostly chronological manner, Howard tells his story from his childhood to his life after the Navy. Throughout, he's learning--not just the technical details of SEAL training, but also about himself and the political and emotional complexities his of life as a SEAL sniper. After barely escaping death in the Battle of Mogadishu, the shootout made famous by the book and film "Black Hawk Down," he's forced to face the conflict between the person he has was when he joined the Navy and the person he had become as a result of his experiences. The difficult path to settling that inner conflict first takes him back to the troubling details of his childhood, and then to a courageous and inspirational decision.
Chapter 1: Reach Out and Touch Someone In this introductory chapter, Howard gives a small taste of the work of a SEAL Team Six sniper. He describes a complicated operation in the middle of Mogadishu, about two weeks before his final battle there. The humanitarian nature of the Somalian mission and Howard's close focus on his role as a sniper are both evident.
Chapter 2: Hell Is for Children Howard's early childhood is chaotic and marked by his mother's poverty and the alcoholism of his stepfather. According to his mother, his biological father had abandoned them. His stepfather is physically abusive, leading Howard to compensate with strict self-discipline and superhuman standards for himself. Fortunately, an uncle and Howard's pastor offer positive influence. Howard goes to college. However, his money runs out. He then joins the Navy, expecting a short career before finishing college. He pushes himself to take on the toughest challenge available to him, becoming a Navy Search and Rescue swimmer, then discovers that his childhood prepared him better for that challenge than he'd realized. He marries and has a son.
Chapter 3: Russian Sub and Green Hero On his first rescue mission, Howard has to rescue the crew of his helicopter, which has gone down in the open sea while tracking a Russian submarine. It's a difficult rescue, but he distinguishes himself. On his ship, he meets Navy SEALs and learn about their unit, the history of which he recounts. Joining the SEALs presents another challenge, so he pushes the Navy to let him try out for the unit.
Chapter 4: The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday Howard goes to Coronado, California, for the famously difficult SEAL training. He details the rigors of the tests the unit uses to weed out candidates, especially the final "Hell Week" tests. He also recounts the heroism of individual SEALs he learned about, and explains the SEAL ethos of excellence and hard work and endurance.
Chapter 5: SEAL Team Two Howard joins his first SEAL unit, SEAL Team Two. He's given more training, including sessions abroad with international commando squads. He also begins to hear about a special, secret unit, SEAL Team Six. It piques his interest. Sadly, his excitement about his career is offset by the death of the uncle who'd been a mentor to him. Howard is crushed. Yet, at the funeral, something positive happens: his stepfather takes a first step toward reconciliation.
Chapter 6: Desert Storm In the 1991 Gulf War, Howard takes part in several missions. The three he recounts take him close to enemy soldiers for the first time. He learns the difficulties of operating in a place where loyalties are unclear, and is forced to recognize the humanity of the enemy soldiers he's been trained to keep at an emotional distance.
Chapter 7: SEAL Team Six Having earned the chance to try out for SEAL Team Six, Howard learns what it means to be part of the most elite team within an elite corps. The training is more extreme, physically and mentally. The standards are higher--so high that many SEALs can't pass. However, there are also perks, which come in the form of more advanced equipment and better training opportunities.
Chapter 8: Born-Again Sniper While Howard and his fellow SEAL Team Six members are satisfied with their 3
achievements, it turns out the highest level of Army command is not. The SEALs can do nearly anything, but they can't work well with the other elite forces, Delta Force and the Army Rangers. Delta and the Rangers have the same problem. The military command, aware of the increasing complexity of Special Operations missions, is determined to bring all the teams in sync. Howard has to learn to balance his pride in his own unit with pride in something larger.
Chapter 9: CIA Safe House--Hunting for Aidid In 1992, the United States sends troops on a humanitarian mission to Somalia, to help citizens who are starving because of the civil war there. By 1993, that has turned into a military mission. Howard is part of an international peacekeeping operation, and an effort to catch the Somali warlord responsible for much of the suffering. In this chapter, a day-by-day account reveals Howard's growing understanding of the political complexity of the mission. Some of the allied countries don't want the mission to succeed. U.S. commanders are at the mercy of political decisions that are influenced by the American media. While struggling to make sense of this confusion so he can complete his mission, Howard takes on the simpler, more satisfying task of treating a wounded Somali boy, despite direct orders to ignore the boy's desperation.
Chapter 10: Capturing Aidid's Evil Genius Coming back to the mission partially described in the introductory chapter, Howard is given the focused task of capturing the warlord's chief colleague, his tactical and financial planner.
Chapter 11: Eyes over Mogadishu Mission Back on the trail of the warlord, Howard notices disturbing signs of information leaks and tactical responses, which suggest to him that the allied forces are underestimating the Somalis--and the danger of the Mogadishu effort.
Chapter 12: Battle of Mogadishu In this detailed account of the Battle of Mogadishu, Howard's worst fears about the mission are realized. He and his colleagues in Delta Force and the Rangers, along with soldiers from other countries in the allied forces, are led into a trap in the center of Mogadishu. They're forced to fight their way out. Not all survive. Howard is gravely wounded.
Chapter 13: From the Ashes Evacuated first to a hospital in Germany and then to the United States, Howard feels anger and self-pity--and at the same time hates himself for having those natural feelings, because he knows his suffering, though intolerable, isn't as great a sacrifice the one made by the men who died in the battle, or even by some of the other wounded. He's also cutoff from the surrogate family he has created, his SEAL team. During his recovery and physical therapy he's at home, but he doesn't feel he fits in there. He and his wife divorce. He contemplates suicide. He pulls himself together by focusing on returning to his SEAL team, only to see, after rejoining them, that he simply can't contribute physically as he had in the past. He has also lost his will to kill. He realizes he has to become a civilian. For the first time in his adult life, he's frightened.
Chapter 14: Fish out of Water Hoping to help others the way a policeman had once helped him, Howard devotes a lot of time and effort to becoming a police officer. He finds, however, that modern policing doesn't give him the opportunity to be a mentor. A variety of other jobs earn money, but 4 leave him feeling empty. Then he unexpectedly meets a woman who becomes his wife.
She pushes him to do something he'd been avoiding: becoming a chiropractor. After so many years a soldier, he didn't trust something that seemed to be all about healing. He was also concerned about being able to handle the schooling. He hadn't put together the pieces of his own story--how important it was to him to help the wounded boy in Somalia, and how much detailed intellectual effort went into each mission as a sniper. He takes on the challenge.
Chapter 15: Healing While Howard is at chiropractic school, his stepfather dies. Fortunately, they'd resolved many of their differences. His father had become able to express his love and admiration for Howard, and eventually Howard was able to say that despite everything that had occurred between them, he felt the same. Still, the death brings up a lot of emotion. Howard's son, sensing something, asks a question of Howard out of the blue: Would you like to meet your biological father? They track him down and get a shock: he hadn't abandoned Howard. He'd spent years looking for them after Howard's mother ran away with him. Meeting his father gives Howard a better understanding of his affectionate side, his ability to feel compassion, which had seemed alien in his family and which he'd suppressed for nearly his entire adult life. Howard becomes a chiropractor and feels blessed. "I understand better why God spared me," he concludes. "He really did have a purpose for me after my life as a SEAL. I truly feel that this is the path God intended for me when he spared my life in Somalia."
QUESTIONS FOR CLASS
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Chapter 1:
? Where is Howard--which continent and country? Why? (Page 3)
? Howard says, "The words drilled into our heads since SEAL training were, `The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.'" (Page 4) What does he mean?
Chapter 2:
? Why does Howard run away from home when he's five years old? (Page 8)
? Howard says he felt it was his "duty" to agree to be adopted by his stepfather. (Page 9) Why does he says this? Is this the same as the duty he later felt as a soldier?
? Howard says that when a junior high school football coach discovered Howard was being physically abused, the coach told no one. "In those days, whatever happened in the home stayed in the home." (Page 11) What was different about those days? Is it certain the coach remained completely silent, or is it possible he told adults who made some effort on Howard's behalf? If he did, were those efforts enough? Would you break a confidence to help someone in Howard's situation? What if that meant breaking a law?
? Howard says that when the coach saw the bruises, "I remember feeling so embarrassed that someone had discovered my secret." (Page 11) Why might Howard have felt embarrassed instead of relieved? Why might he have kept the beatings a secret? Why didn't he just tell another adult? If you were Howard's friend then, and you had discovered his secret, what would you say to him?
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